Two Koreas to enter PyeongChang under one flag

South and North Korea held working-level talks at the Peace House in the Panmunjom truce village on Jan. 17 and agreed to march together in the Opening Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games under the Korean unification flag. 

The South’s representative, Chun Hae-Sung, vice minister of unification, and the North’s Jon Jong Su, vice chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country, had 10 meetings for 11 hours and afterward adopted a joint press release. 

The press release concerns the two Korea marching together under the Korean unification flag, organizing a joint North-South women’s ice hockey team, and the size of the North’s cheering squad and its means of transportation. 

The two parties also agreed to host a joint "cultural event" at Geumgangsan Mountain in North Korea and hold a joint ski training session at the North’s Masikryong Ski Resort before the Olympics. 

According to the press release, North Korea will dispatch a 230-strong cheering squad that will join together with the South’s official cheering squad to cheer for the PyeongChang Olympics and for both South and North Korean athletes. Also, a 30-member taekwondo demonstration team will perform in Pyeongchang and in Seoul. 

Finally, it was announced that most of North Korea’s delegation will travel to the South using the Gyeongui Line.